conceptions of divine morality and divine freedom reveal that in contrast to the case of Leibniz, Malebranche's theodicy not only does not require that God create anything at all, but also is compatible with the result that the world he decides to create is not uniquely the best possible.doi...
Do we live in the best of all possible Worlds? Some Commentaries on Leibniz' 'Monadology' and 'Theodicy' Studia Comeniana et HistoricaSchadel, Erwin
Scribano, E. 2003. ‘False enemies: Malebranche, Leibniz, and the best of all possible worlds’,Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, vol. I, pp. 165–82. Strickland, L. 2006.Leibniz reinterpreted. London: Continu...
Lecture 8: Explores God's role in the Discourse, noting Leibniz's absence of a direct argument for God's existence. Addresses his criticism of the ontological argument in Section 23. Discusses Leibniz's views on definition, innate ideas, and the mind's acquisition of ideas. Lecture 9: Cover...
Lloyd, G., 1978, `Leibniz on Possible Individuals and Possible Worlds', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 56/2: 126-142; page reference is to the reprint in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments, Volume 1, R. Woolhouse (ed.), London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 366-385...
Regarding the issue of freedom, Leibniz proposed a unique perspective that reconciles divine omnipotence with human freedom. He argued that God, being infinitely good and wise, created the best of all possible worlds. In this world, every event is predetermined by God's divine plan, yet human...
When this joy is constant, we reach happiness and wisdom which is a kind of standing state of virtue, readiness to practice charity in the best of all possible worlds. However, it also indicates that our knowledge is never perfect. Perfecting our knowledge is a never-ending process which ...
Leibniz's theory of possibility, indeed, has been deeply criticized in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (CPR). Interestingly enough, however, Kant's principal argument for rejecting that the field of what is possible is greater than the field of what is real was already anticipated by Leibniz....
Leibniz was thus a cosmopolitan and vastly learned man; but my impression is that, like many extremely brilliant individuals, the depth of his thought was compromised by his own wit. The most famous indication of this was his conclusion that we live in the best of all possible worlds, an ...
On this see, for example,Epitome, Book IV, pars II, chapter III, in particular the answers to the three questions: “Habes etiam alia argumenta praeter motum, quibus verisimile fiat in corpore Solis animam inesse?, „Num etiam mentem aut intelligentiam addes Solis animae, quae moderetur...